Chris Watkins wrote:
On Appropedia.org, we're thinking about using the API to better link with other sites. Those partner sites sometimes have a concern about login, though.
It would be best if a logged-in user from the other site could be recognized by the wiki in some way. E.g. someone logged into the Drupal site of Engineers Without Borders UK http://www.ewb-uk.org/ as jane.smith who then edited a page via the API would be shown as something like "jane.smith (ewb-uk)" in the Appropedia page's history.
Even better would be if the user could optionally connect their account on another site with an existing Appropedia account, so they don't end up with two or more accounts by editing via different sites.
Any suggestions? If we wanted to implement something like this, where would we start?
Thanks.
What about using OpenID? (see OpenID extension) That way jane smith from ewb-uk would use ewb-uk.org as OpenID provider and appear as jane.smith@ewb-uk.org